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reasonability

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From reason(able) + -ability. Compare Middle English unresonabiltee, unresonabylite, whence unreasonability. Piecewise doublet of rationability.

noun reasonabilities

uncountable, usually The state or quality of being reasonable. 1897, Judson Harmon, "Brief for the United States in the Case of the United States of America v. The Trans-Missouri Freight Association," The Yale Law Journal, vol. 6, no. 6, p. 323n., The very difficult inquiry as to the reasonability of such agreements was an inadequate protection.
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@misc{reasonability_2026,
  title = {reasonability},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/reasonability},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}